From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V2 #186 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Friday, October 10 2003 Volume 02 : Number 186 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 20:04:02 -0500 From: Linda Adams Subject: [AML] If you could have your wish... If you had a nifty chance for a trip to New York, and were planning on a Broadway show, which of these would you pick and why? Now, I already know Richard Dutcher would pick Chicago :-} so I've counted=20 that vote ahead of time. This is somewhat theoretical still, but one can dream. I might get to go! Chicago Hairspray (is this actually a kids' show?) Phantom of the Opera Lion King 42nd Street RENT Donkey Show Cabaret Urinetown The Producers I've seen the Producers the movie--hysterical. Is this the same show? And=20 hm.... Urinetown just... uh... doesn't sound attractive.You'd have to work=20 hard to convince me of that one, but I'm listing it anyway. And I've seen=20 Phantom, so that would be a repeat, but it was in Kansas City (touring=20 cast) not Broadway. Big difference? Thanks for your votes! If it's not appropos to the List, email=20 . Linda Adams - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:22:04 -0600 From: Clark Goble Subject: Re: [AML] SF versus SciFi ___ Jamie ___ | Is this book idiot-friendly? As much SF and sci-fi I | read, and as interested as I am in space and black | holes and such, I'm easily confused by the technical | stuff. Could I read it and understand it? ___ Yeah, it is written to a popular audience. Check Amazon under Kip Thorn. Kind of a funny book. It doesn't sound like he was ever much of a Mormon, but it does a better job on such things than Stephen Hawkings _A Brief History of Time_. I don't think it the best popularization of advanced physics. But one certainly could do worse. If nothing else Thorn debunk a lot of the Star Trek view of physics that is sadly too common. Clark GOble - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 20:58:31 -0600 From: Marny Parkin Subject: [AML] Spery Symposium at BYU Annual BYU Sperry Symposium to focus on the Book of Mormon Oct. 24-25 Sheri L. Dew, president and chief executive officer of Deseret Book Company, and Robert J. Matthews, dean emeritus of Religious Education at Brigham Young University, will be the featured speakers at the annual Sidney B. Sperry Symposium on the Scriptures Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24 and 25, on the BYU campus. The theme of this year's symposium is "The Fullness of the Gospel: Foundational Teachings From The Book of Mormon." Dew will give the keynote address, "The Book of Mormon: The Ultimate Shock and Awe," Friday at 6:30 p.m. in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium. For more information and the complete schedule, contact Patty Smith at (801) 422-3611, or visit the Web site at http://religion.byu.edu/events.htm. Marny Parkin - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:34:32 +1000 From: "Covell, Jason" Subject: RE: [AML] If you could have your wish... > If you had a nifty chance for a trip to New York, and were planning on > a Broadway show, which of these would you pick and why? >=20 > Now, I already know Richard Dutcher would pick Chicago :-} so I've=20 > counted that vote ahead of time. This is somewhat theoretical still,=20 > but one can dream. I might get to go! >=20 > Chicago > Hairspray (is this actually a kids' show?) > Phantom of the Opera > Lion King > 42nd Street > RENT > Donkey Show > Cabaret > Urinetown > The Producers [snip] If I can throw my hat in here, I'd like to contribute a modest suggestion: The Boy from Oz opened in New York in August (I think), starring Hugh Jackman as Peter Allen, the Australian singer-songwriter. (LDS tie-in: Hugh's name was one tossed around by Jongiorgi Enos when canvassing ideas on possible Joseph Smith actors.) I don't know how the New York production (is it Broadway or off-Broadway?) scrubs up, but I had the privilege to see the original Australian production (different cast) a couple of years ago. It's be re-tooled somewhat for the American audience, with less emphasis on the Australian side of things and more about his life in America, including his relationship with wife Liza Minelli. Basically, I think it's a pretty fantastic show. The Aussie version blew me away - great songs, which really made me go back and re-evaluate Peter Allen's work. He was our Elton John, but with much more energy, an amazingly talented performer on every level. And I can scarcely hear, even think about, his great song "Tenterfield Saddler" without feeling a tear coming. It's also the emotional highpoint of the show. Jason Covell Senior Review Officer 9716 2365 - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:59:35 -0700 From: "Kathy Tyner" Subject: Re: [AML] If you could have your wish... I'm a major-league sucker for Phantom, so I have no objectivity there. I saw it twice with Davis Gaines who I honestly felt had a better voice than Michael Crawford. If he's playing the Phantom-See it! My mom raved about Lion King, and she's a harsh critic on musicals. In this version of Cabaret, if you see it, be prepared to be mooned. Both the West coast cast and the Broadway cast of The Producers have gotten rave reviews and the stage version is even funnier than the movie, but then Mel Brooks is a zany genius anyway. If you want romance, see Phantom, if you want to laugh, see The Producers. I offer no opinions on your other possibilities. But have fun! Kathy Tyner Orange County, CA - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:50:13 -0600 From: Melissa Proffitt Subject: Re: [AML] (SL Trib) _Work & Glory_ Movie On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 22:46:57 -0500, Linda Adams wrote: >And [Harry Potter] book 5 was plainly at least 300 pages *too* long. = =3D Which is what I'd=3D3D20 >like to discuss briefly. I sat last night wondering how she got away=20 >with=3D3D20 all the extraneous information in that book, and the=20 >wandering, and many > >narrative passages that could have quickly, painlessly been redone =3D as=3D3D20 >dialogue or "live action." Say your piece; move on to the next thing.=20 >I've=3D3D20 read all the books, yet this is the first volume I've = noticed >this being so=3D3D20 >rampant. Sorry, I don't agree about the length. I enjoyed every minute of it and never felt as though the information was extraneous or unnecessary. But that's because I see these books as about a *world* just as much as they are about a *person*. Harry is important; the plot is important; but what kids love about this stuff is all that detail that makes the wizarding world come alive. Even the details that seem to have nothing to do with forwarding the plot. Basically I'm still saying what I have been all along: J.K. Rowling has figured out how to write books that people love. Nobody really knows what it is about the books that makes them so popular--not just that they're being purchased but that they're being read, devoured, frantically pre-ordered. It is entirely possible that the things she's doing "wrong" are the keys to her success. I don't know what kind of editorial process Rowling's books go through, but I really don't see the kind of deterioration you suggest. Melissa Proffitt - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:58:12 -0800 From: Stephen Carter Subject: RE: [AML] Work & Glory Movie or "Do The Math" >===== Original Message From "Eric Samuelsen" >===== >But I'm stubborn enough to say this: if we make a good enough movie, >someday, it can be a small crossover hit. In fact, I know this is >true. I know it for an absolute fact. Because Neil Labute's already >done it with In The Company of Men, made a brilliant little Mormon >movie cheaply, and had an art house hit. And I doubt fifteen Mormons >saw that movie, and yet it's Mormon to the core.=20 Hey, you've found one of the 15 Mormons who has seen this flick. And I still think about it sometimes. But I'm interested. How do you see this movie as "Mormon to the core?" Stephen Carter Fairbanks, Alaska - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V2 #186 ******************************